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Lot #
16046
Auction End Date
10/24/2006 12:01:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Bezalel der Gottberufene
Author
[Only Ed.] Adolf Huebsch
City
Prague
Publisher
Brandeis
Publication Date
1865
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 21 pp., 194:128 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in later boards. Rare - no copy in major collections.
Detailed
Description
Discourse by Adolf Huebsch (1830–1884), rabbi and orientalist. Huebsch was born in the Hungarian town of Lipto-Szentmiklos. Upon receiving his rabbinical diploma in 1854, he became rabbi of the small Orthodox congregation of Miawa. In 1857 he went to the University of Prague to study philosophy, receiving his doctoral degree in 1861, the same year that he accepted the rabbinate of the Neu-Synagogue in Prague. In 1866 Huebsch was invited to become head of Congregation Ahawath Chesed in New York, where he served for the remainder of his life. His interest in liturgy led him to introduce a moderate reformed ritual and to compose a new prayer book, later adopted by many other congregations. As a scholar, Huebsch's main work was his edition of the Syriac Peshitta on the Five Scrolls, Hamesh Megillot im Targum Suri (1866), translated as Fuenf Megilloth nebst dem Syrischen Thargum (1866). He also published a collection of his sermons, Dein Licht und deine Wahrheit (1868), and a book of Arabic aphorisms, Gems of the Orient (1887).
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Bohemia
Subject
Homiletics:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German, Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
